Modern capitalism is squeezing people on wages and food prices, producing a populace overfed on cheap calories and undernourished, which in the U.S. case shunts them into healthcare to be privately managed, feeding the disproportionately expensive and corrupt healthcare system. …not to mention the gym memberships then paid for in a vain attempt to match the physiques pervasively marketed. Most are failing badly but perhaps succeed in feeling negatively about themselves. A constant state of anxiety and externally-induced striving in the general population is the capitalist ideal.
